Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27

vas II reflection or memory that love is
great deal TO the yOungp Suppose lie
should go of on another tack and simply
| require the young folks to wait a while.
One of the two things would be likely to
happen: Either Reuben would ''get
ahead"-as the Captain frankly admitted
To himself the young fellow deserved to
or he would go down where Jack and
Dan were, and other way the matter
would be settled.
And the weary man settled down more
cOzily In his seat, braced against the
mast, the pipe dropped unheeded from
his mouth to the deck, aud he imagined
that he continued thinking, while the
fact was that he was only dreaming. Aud
his minds eve saw his darling Elsie a
matron, sitting in ruddy freight that he
somehow knew was her home; chubby
little tOddler-strOug, and gOlden-nalred
and blue-eyed, as boy JACK once looked
stood at her knee, plllowing his Curls
upon her lap and learning to lisp "g'an-
pa" and Reuben Dali was in the picture
too, with his strong right hand laid caress-
inglv on Elsle's shoulder as he called her
wife" and she looked up at him with the
love light in her eyes like that he saw in
Mary's long ago.
The wind yeered around to the north
east, growing colder and stronger; In the
chOpping sea that soon arose the Flying
Fish tugged and strained at her anchor
like O mad, living thing in leash. the hui
mid air grew 80 thick with fog that the
feeble light OF the lantern dancing in the
rigging could hardly be seen across the
deck, and still the skipper slept on and
dreamed happy dreams of home and love.
Had be been awake ne would have
heard, at intervals, coming nearer aud
nearer. w-pitched, hoarse, melancholy
roars, and between them the sound o.
some great thing rushing through the
waves. beating them down and breathing
so hard with it's eXertions that the rising
gale seemed to pulsate with the impulse OF
its respirations. Had he been awake, he
would have seen suddenly glaring upon
him out OF the fog two huge eyes, one red,
the other green, and between them, tow
ering up terrifcally high into the dome OF
night, looming over him and coming
swift upon him, an enormous something
like a sharp-edg ged. black, iron mountain
the stem OF steamship. And then'he
would have known no more than he did
when all this came upon him In his sleep,
until he found himself deep down in the
water, instinctively battling for his life.
AS he reached the surface some bit OF
wreckage fioating-all that was left of
the unfortunate Flying Fish-struck
against him violently, almost stunning
MIN, but he clutched 1t, held on manfully,
supporting himself by it, and shouted for
help.
The steamship that had run bis vessel
down was already swallowed up in the
fog. Her speed had not slackeued- Per-
haps those aboard her were all unc0n-
scious that their mighty engine of de-
struction had sent six more brave men
down to rest beneath the waves on the
Georges and left one fighting with the
cruel pillows for his life. Would they
have stopped to succor him if they had
known? Doubtful. Certain lines of
transatlantic steamships habitually cross
the Georges Banks. It Is the direct
course laid down for them. IT the fisher
men will get in the way. why, of course
they must suffer. And they do so often
that it is an old story. Sometimes pas
senger says at breakfast:
"I was wakeful last night, and it
seemed to me, Captain, that at one time
| felt jar, as if we had met some slight
obstruction, and that | heard a Shrek"
"Oh! dear! No, madam" replies the
smiling Captain, "if anything OF the
kind bad occurred it would have been re-
ported TO me. 1t was only the shock of
heavy wave that you felt; only the voic e
OF the wind that you heard"
But far in their wake that night the
affrighted gulls screamed to each other
that the sound was 1.-THE bubbling cry OF
some strong swimmer in his agony"